What's Your Minoru Story (2016)

Area: City Centre
Location: The artwork is displayed in 40 feet of construction banner around the new Minoru Complex and is visible from the Minoru Track.

Materials: Mesh construction banner

Program: Community
Ownership: Civic
Sponsored By: City of Richmond
Also Known As: Minoru Complex Community Banner: What's Your Minoru Story

Description of Work

Through this project, community members of all ages were invited to share their Minoru expieriences in just six words. Participants added sketches and explanations as another layer to their stories. More than 120 memoirs in five languages were submitted and hundreds more memories were verbally shared at workshops. Each memoir was then digitally reconstructed as a graphic inspired by the author's message. The resulting mosaic is a piece of community history that reflects the unique identities of all its authors and their perceptions of Minoru as a place. It is designed as a visually striking typographical documentary of the community's connection to this place and the new facility to come.

Artist Statement

For more than a century, the area where you are standing has played a significant role in the recreational, social and cultural life of Richmond residents. The development of the Minoru Complex represents the next step in the evolution of the Minoru Precinct.

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